2010 United Nations General Assembly Meetings To Begin September 23rd In New York Anti-American Leaders Such As Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega and Evo Morales Expected The United States will once again be in the position of having to to allow some of it's top antagonists access to the country for the U.N. General Assembly, scheduled to take place in New York City in late Sept...

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This weekend the Scottish Human Rights Commission hosts the 10th International Conference of National Human Rights Institutions. The first official United Nations conference t

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Prime Minister David Cameron is travelling to New York, where he is due to address the United Nations General Assembly.

I just spoke at the Canadian Jewish Law Students Association annual conference in Ottawa. The theme was human rights, so I'm delighted that I was invited to give my perspective, as someone who had been put through the wringer of a human rights commission. I compared the counterfeit Canadian "human rights commissions" with the Orwellian "human rights council" at the United Nations, and pointed...

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to address the United Nations General Assembly in New York just days ahead of crunch international talks on the global economy.

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This site provides free access to a 33 page pamphlet published by the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS) as UNCTAD/NGLS/2008/2 in August 2008 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It offers a basic introduction to International human rights legislation (the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other core international human right...

From the UN press site: "The 18 newly elected members of the Human Rights Council would need to prove themselves by implementing the international human rights agenda at home and abroad, Craig Mokhiber, Deputy Director of the New York Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), said during a Headquarters news conference this afternoon...“We would like to get away...